Related Literature

Few literatures were found to relate the Factors Affecting the Pioneering Grade

11 Students Hesitate to Enroll in Accountancy, Business and Management. The

following books are somehow related to the current studies.

According to Stanley, L. E., Delmontagne, E. M., and Wood, W. C, “Offsetting

behavior and adaptation: How student respond to hard professors”, a Journal of

Education and Business, they point out in the offsetting piece, students may be finding

the course hard because the instruction isn’t very good—not well organized, unclear

explanations, content seemingly irrelevant, and poorly constructed test questions. Or,

students may find the course challenging because the content isn’t easy and the

instructor has high standards.

In the same journal of Stanley, Delmontagne and Wood, if students are

convinced there’s no way they’re going to succeed in a course, the bulk of them stop

trying, and that certainly effects what they learn in the course. Moreover, if the teacher

has made a good faith effort to teach, the students have made a good faith effort to

learn, and a majority of students are still failing or doing poorly, that’s a hard course

whose virtue should be questioned.

According to Cheno Banal-Fermoso in Philippine Daily Inquirer, states the reason

why the students hardly decide on what strand in Senior High School will they choose.

There are unfamiliar subjects in Senior High School, especially in ABM strand, that
makes the students hesitate to enroll in this particular strand. Cheno states that, “They

are not because the more familiar subjects are in junior high school. The SHS

curriculum has been integrated with some subjects in the College General Education

curriculum with the approval of the Commission on Higher Education, which subjects

will be deleted from the college curriculum so students may focus more on courses

relevant to their degree programs.”

Related Studies

Several studies were conducted to identify the Factors Affecting the Pioneering

Grade 11 Students Hesitate to Enroll in Accountancy, Business and Management. The

following are the studies related to the current studies.

In Fritz Gerald Martin’s study, “The Factors that Affect Students’ Decision in

Choosing their College Courses”, states that Decision-making is the logical way of

setting one’s mind to choose amidst the possibilities to satisfy man’s ease. This is true

as stated that good decision-making is an essential skill for career success generally,

and effective leadership particularly. It is true that for an individual to be successful, the

person must possess good decision-making. Every day we make decisions, whether big

or small and these decisions can make huge impacts in our lives.

In the same study, the researchers conducted the study in order to know the

factors that affect student’s decision in choosing their college courses. This study also

includes the effect of these factors to psychological aspect of the youth. And finally, to
make the readers understand the statement, “Put your future in good hands-your own.”

– Author Unknown

“Factors Influencing the College Choice Decisions of Graduate Students”, a

study of Ruth E. Kallio. The study examines the relative influence of factors affecting the

college choice decisions of graduate students. It is based on a 1986 survey of 2,834

admitted students at a major research university, to which 38 percent of the sample

responded. Factor analysis of ratings of importance of 31 college characteristics yielded

dimensions upon which student decisions are based. These results were used to build

five scales of importance and preference, which were then tested with other variables in

a regression model in which the dependent variable was the decision to enroll or not to

enroll at the surveying institution. The following were found to influence decisions:

residency status, quality and other academic environment characteristics, work-related

cancers, spouse considerations, financial aid, and the campus social environment.

A study of Kamran Ahmed , Kazi Feroz Alam & Manzurul Alam, “An empirical

study of factors affecting accounting students' career choice in New Zealand”, examines

the influence of intrinsic factors; financial and job-related factors; other factors such as

parent and peer influence and work experience; exposure to high school accounting;

and the students' perceived benefit-cost ratio to being a chartered accountant, on

whether accounting students choose to pursue a chartered accountancy (CA) career or

a non-accounting career. Based on a survey of 295 students from five universities in

New Zealand, the results show that the students who intend to pursue a CA career

place significantly greater importance on financial and job-related factors and perceived

benefit-cost ratio than those who choose a non-accounting career. Intrinsic factors,

other factors and exposure to high school accounting have no significant influence on

the decision whether to select a CA career. A discriminant analysis revealed that

financial and job-related factors have the highest explanatory power differentiating the

two groups, followed by the students' perception of benefits and costs associated with a

CA career.

A study of “Risk Theory and Student Course Selection” by Dennis Zocco studies

the impact of possible outcomes on the process and consequences of decisions.

Students make course selection (CS) decisions with varied return expectations, but also

with a perception of the risk that those expectations will not be realized. This study

presents the findings of an empirical analysis measuring the relative magnitudes of risk

perceptions in four major categories that students consider in selecting upcoming

courses – subject matter, professor, course environment, and grading. Participants

were undergraduate and graduate students in a Business school and an Arts and

Sciences school in a private liberal arts university. The results indicate that

undergraduate and graduate students place importance on the surveyed risk elements

in an inverse fashion. Results also show that course selection risk perception differs

among students according to class standing but are similar between students in both

Business and Arts & Sciences schools